The Times reports, external the Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) that she plans to increase income tax. The Guardian leads, external with the comments from Labour's deputy leader, Lucy Powell, that the party should stand by its commitment not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT. Tim Davie must "explain or quit", is the message from Boris Johnson to the BBC director general in the Daily Telegraph, external. According to the Times, external, a cabinet colleague has described as "cowardly" the justice secretary David Lammy's handling of a row about the mistaken release of inmates from prison. The Daily Telegraph says , externalthe images were "damning", with a "huge cordon of police vans, Jewish people corralled behind wire mesh and a marauding hoard of pro-Palestinian disruptors".
